On Feb 18, 2009, at 7:39 PM, Fernando Perez wrote:
> Yi Wen wrote:
>> Hello,
>>>> according to this post:
>>http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2009/1/13/rspec-1-1-12-is-released>>>> I should be able to write:
>>>> describe User do
>> it {should valdate_presence_of(:login)}
>> end
>> What's the point in testing validates_presence_of for a model? It's
> already tested in the framework, and so readable that a quick glance
> on
> the model says it all. I would only test it if I added some bizarre
> behavior with procs and so on.
>> What's the community's position about that?
It shouldn't be a test, it's a spec. So it's done *before* you write
the code. The specs describe the behavior of the application.